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1927

  • Work on this object began.

1954

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Drawing, Design for Armchair

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Ernest Boiceau. It is dated 1927 and we acquired it in 1954. Its medium is graphite, brush and yellow-beige watercolor on illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Cooper Union Library. It is credited Transferred from Cooper Union Museum Library, gift of Mrs. A. Stewart Walker.

Its dimensions are

18 x 26.8 cm (7 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Embossed artist's monogram, upper right: EB

It is inscribed

Upper left, in graphite: 3 (encircled) $750 Lowe right: wood covered / galuchant / (lizard) / white ... color / 3 (encircled) / E. Boiceau

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Armchair; Designed by Ernest Boiceau (1881 - 1950); France; graphite, brush and yellow-beige watercolor on illustration board; 18 x 26.8 cm (7 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Transferred from Cooper Union Museum Library, gift of Mrs. A. Stewart Walker; 1954-69-2

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